283 AC, Battle of the Trident. Rhaegar Targaryen kills Robert Baratheon, crushing the hopes of the rebel forces. Years of bloodshed follow, because the king's taste for revenge knows no boundaries. Houses Baratheon, Stark, Arryn, Tully and Greyjoy are slaughtered, only a few lucky ones outlive the mad king's wrath.
King Aerys dies the following year, and Rhaegar is crowned king. His wife, princess Elia of Dorne, dies in childbirth. Soon afterwards, Rhaegar marries Lyanna Stark, who is held hostage in Red Keep. He claims her son, Jon, as his own and legitimizes him.
Rhaegar's mother, Rhaella, gives birth to twins eight months after her husband's death. She refuses to return to Red Keep, residing at Dragonstone for the rest of her life. After her death in 301 AC, twins Daenerys and Viserys are sent to King's Landing.
Difficult times lie ahead. Creatures of ice awaken from their sleep, threatening the king's peace. The royal family is not as strong as it appears. Lords wronged during the Robert's Rebellion seek revenge.
However, the Targaryens are not the ones to give up. They are going to fight, as they always have. With blood and fire.
Let the game begin.
NOTE: If you haven't read all 5 Song of Ice and Fire books, this fanfiction may contain spoilers! I don't own any of the characters that appear in the original books.
"𝐃𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑, 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄, 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐄𝐋𝐒𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐍?"
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Born on the Sands of Dorne with no title yet to her name and a bastard to a vigorous Targaryen Prince, Sylvia is raised alongside her mother in a pleasure house. Being the only born with silver hair and dragon scales along her deep brown skin, Sylvia is taught to cover herself from people who won't understand...and people who would want to harm her.
On the night of an attack, Sylvia is separated from her mother and boards a ship heading directly to King's Landing where she is then recognized as her father's bastard and legitimized in the name of his honor, for may his bloodline thrives for another hundred years.
Her days are set with learning the ways of the court and housing a potential husband from a promised conversation with King Aul Targaryen. But what happens when she catches the eye of the king's eldest son, Prince Viseron Targaryen, crowned prince and heir to the Iron Throne? A charming prince with a wicked blunt tongue, already betrothed to another.
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𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 12/12/22 (published 3/16/23)
𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲:
𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁:
☆ 𝗔 𝗙𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗬 𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗡 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗔𝗚𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 (in-depth explanation inside)
☆ 𝗢𝗖!𝗕𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘅 𝗢𝗖!𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗿𝘆𝗲𝗻